Amanda Bynes DUI Arrest Ends Months of Calm for Troubled Actress

LOS ANGELES — After successfully evading the tabloid spotlight for months, Amanda Bynes was arrested Monday for driving under the influence of drugs, Mashable has confirmed.

Bynes was picked up at 3:45 a.m. PT Monday in the San Fernando Valley community of Sherman Oaks, California, after her white Mercedes-Benz stopped in the middle of an intersection once the light had turned red, the California Highway Patrol said in a statement. Her arrest, on Van Nuys Boulevard just north of Riverside Drive, was first reported by TMZ.

A view of the intersection where Amanda Bynes was arrested early Monday.

CHP officers determined that Bynes was driving under the influence of drugs and brought her to the Van Nuys division of the Los Angeles Police Department, where she was booked just after 7 a.m. Law enforcement officials said she was cooperative during the process, and TMZ added that she had since posted $15,000 bail.

Bynes had been living with her parents — and out of the spotlight — for months after a long, public period of erratic and bizarre behavior. Her most recent court appearance came in February, when she pleaded no contest to a 2012 "wet reckless" misdemeanor and was sentenced to three years of probation and a three-month alcohol education class.

Her parents were granted conservatorship over Bynes following the incident, in which she collided with a patrol car. That mishap came on the heels of months of trouble and bizarre public appearances in which she would wear strange wigs and glasses and claim not to be the actress, who came to fame with Nickelodeon shows All That and The Amanda Show, as well as small film roles.

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